Anyone surfing the Internet this week is free to read leaked documents about the prisoners held by the American military at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, to print them out or e-mail them to friends.

Except, that is, for the lawyers who represent the prisoners.

On Monday, hours after WikiLeaks,
The New York Times and other news organizations began publishing the
documents online, the Justice Department informed Guantánamo defense
lawyers that the documents remained legally classified even after they
were made public.